GrokBot

“And to take that even one step further I think there is this old school software tendency to say things like, GrokBot now has. And when you think of completing that sentence, it would be like a new button to press, or it'd be a new dropdown, or it'd be a new i…”

“And those two things actually are not different problem sets. In a lot of ways, the product form factor and the ways of solving those problems is pretty much the same. And so my instinct is that I think one product will be the best form factor for both of thos…”

“This would not have been possible if it had been, I think, a much bigger group. I think it took a small focus group that was completely isolated from the rest of the company, and I mean that literally.”

“There's a brand association with these things, and so I think we evaluated that path, and I think we saw what maybe some of our competitors have been doing of this is all just one surface. You add new tabs for each new form factor, and it feels a little clutte…”

“I would encourage power users to think about ways that GrokBot can actually write to like a single store where you can organize a lot of its outputs much easier.”

“It was useful to hear that nobody wanted the like long stream of just text streaming out and chain of thought sequences.”

“We certainly have seen this in, in the coding realm, and so I think what GrokBot did in response to that was, actually, you should just define automations in natural language, and you should tell your bot, remind me that at eight a.m. Every day, please, and th…”

“And so I think once you start breaking out of this is AI chat with a set of connections, which is I think where most people are conceptually now instead to This is a colleague with a computer, and anything I would ask a colleague to do on a computer, I can ask…”

“And there are a bunch of tools that sales uses that do not have well-supported MCPs or APIs. And I think that's a lot of what made bot so before and after powerful for this group was these were things that they just could not give another AI tool reliably.”

“In that first week after that all hands I mean, I can't even tell you just the outpour of love for GrokBot from people that maybe you wouldn't expect or from groups of the company that maybe you wouldn't expect. People who, you know, were daily driving ChatGPT…”

“One example was from rolling out GrokBot, one group inside of the company that was actually Incredibly bot-pilled, so to speak was our go-to-market team, was sales.”

“In fact, it is likely that this is most powerful for non-developers.”

“The hacky, you know, you have a VPN at home and a Mac mini set up. Clearly it was not going to scale to millions of users. Clearly it's not going to be the way, importantly, that businesses take advantage of this technology.”

“Like, it's those types of always-on sourcing use cases that I think in the past were incredibly manual, and now it's the type of thing AI is superhuman at, and our team can focus on closing great candidates and getting conversations with great candidates and n…”

“But instead of kind of trying to retrofit those concepts into some new surface or into an existing surface, which I think would have been the strong default, I think for many companies, we decided to start from scratch and we decided to just try to get these t…”

“And I think power tools of the future will actually be Very different from that where it is mostly just intent being expressed and good steering on the part of the human, and these AI tools abstract away all of the knobs. You should never see them unless you n…”

“And so in order to actually deliver on that promise, it's actually not a lot of feature product roadmap style stuff. It's like hill climbing five really important problems in the back end that many users don't directly experience, but you totally feel when, yo…”

“I do that one too. That one's actually a very useful thing to do is you download grok bots for one of your bots. Mine is like a QA tester bot. And that way, if there's ever Bug report, or if we're kind of testing out a new build for example, example of the des…”

“And the reason for that is we think as these models get smarter the same way that your teammates, you know, you wouldn't ask for second by second updates of exactly all the buttons they're pressing and websites they're going to. I think it's too much to ask yo…”

“The ultimate vision of GrokBot is incredibly simple, which is you should have a team of AI bots that help you with your job and help you with your life. And it should really feel like a team. It should really feel like Teammates that are autonomous are helping…”

“And I think from the first line of code to when we released this prototype internally, it was only about a month.”

“The first task I gave it was go through my Slack, go through my email and suggest like five things that you can take off of my plate and what it would take for you to do that. And I suggested five and like two of them were actually really helpful. And I just i…”

“Ultimately when you're shipping production software, we're big believers that that is going to require, you know, a product where every pixel is optimized for that end user.”

“It was about three weeks from internal beta to public launch.”

“When I saw Claire Rowe, who's been, like, the biggest proponent of OpenClaw, and has, it's, like, become a core part of the way she lives, and works with her kids, and does all her work, she just switched all of her Open clause. You shut them all down and swit…”

“It's actually really important that these bots have their own computer. And part of it is what I described earlier of there are a bunch of tasks that don't have well-supported MCPs and APIs. We as humans don't do our jobs by MCPs and APIs. Like we use a comput…”

“So I think that's one very critical thing is these are long-lived agents. These are not individual one-off sessions, and these agents get smarter over time. And then the second thing is those agents have access to all of the tools that you would expect a human…”

“I think it was important for the core team to be in the room for those and to just sit on a call for 20 minutes when the computer isn't spinning up or when someone's in onboarding and they're just incredibly confused. So that immediately after you're like, tha…”

“If you delegate something to someone and you're like, I know I'm going to have to be thinking about this while you're doing it. And I know it, like, Probably is not going to be quite there, and I'm going to have to intervene and kind of steer it slightly. You'…”

“I have mine hooked up to like every mention of GrokBot ever on X. And it's interacting with our internal context. It's interacting with the QA tester to, like, see if it can repro any bugs or feedback that we're getting. I've hooked up to my own kind of messag…”

“And we made a really early decision that this should just all be in the cloud. And if it's in the cloud and it's this persistent colleague that has its own computer, it can do its own work. It has the same state everywhere you interact with it.”

“So when we rolled out GrokBot internally, there was about a week or two where the common pattern of the way people would interact with the products was you would have five to 10 bots. In each bot you would give a different scope, a different domain, and it was…”

“And so there was about a two week period where we were in that mode and onboarded a couple of hundred people.”